Should I Do Treatment Ulthera or Liposuction to Change my Cheek and Jowl? (photo)

Should I do treatment Ulthera or Liposuction to change my cheek and jowl ? I do not like how look my lower part of face. I am slim but it seems that on cheeks are to much fat. Or should I use ulthera instead? I am 34 .

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Ulthera vs lipo

June 18th, 2012

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Your posted photo is a limited view out of focus with your head tilted to one side. It is impossible to assess the degree of fat loss/excess or skin laxity from this photo so it is impossible to make a valid recommendation based solely on it. I am not sure you need either one. As you get older that cheek fat will get smaller on its own. If you remove too much of it now your face could look like a skeleton in the future. You have some marionette lines and nasolabial folds that you could have addressed now without surgery or downtime and then save the more aggressive treatments for when your face has aged more.

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Ultherapy and or liposuction of the face

December 6th, 2012

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If there are facial areas that have sagged I would do Ultherapy. If there is a fat accumulation of the neck I would do liposuction. From your photograph, I see youthful cheeks and a relatively sharp jawline. It is not possible to perform a reasonable consultation from photographs when I would need to see one's three dimensional facial structures from different angles and see how the features interrelate with animation.

Ulthera or Lipo for face?

June 6th, 2012

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if you were my patient I would actually do a combination of both. micro-cannula assisted tumescent liposuction of the lower third of the face to sharpen your jawline and neck fat and after you wouldve healed to do Ulthera for the face to tighten your mid face.

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